Is it just me or do some of the rest of you also attempt avoid letting people find out you work with computers?

Why do I say that? Because in my experience it's quite amazing the amount of people that when you tell them you're a software developer say "oh, that means you can fix my laptop/pc/printer etc..."

It's like someone saying "I'm a window cleaner" and then someone expecting them to be able to reglaze the entire house....

Okay, slightly far fetched example but hopefully you take the point ;-)

--- Jay

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In reply to Re: Software engineering: a useless profession? by gothic_mallard
in thread Software engineering: a useless profession? by johnnywang

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